React Icon Factory

Simply add icon SVGs and the react icon factory will manufacture a custom icon component!

The original code came from this blog post http://dmfrancisco.github.io/react-icons/

Just use React-Icons

If you just want to use icons from one of the popular open source icon packs, React-Icons is awesome. @gorangajic has set things up so each icon is importable as its own component.

https://github.com/gorangajic/react-icons

Install

npm install react-icon-factory

Usage

First load into the IconFactory an object with the SVG for each icon.

var IconFactory = require('react-icon-factory');

// svg truncated for readability.
var Icon = IconFactory({
  drafts: <g><path d="M21.99 8c0-.72-.37-1.35-.94-1></path></g>
  "account-child": <g><path d="M16.5 12c1.38 0 -.28z"></path></g>
  accessibility: <g><path d="M12 2c1.1 0 2 .9 2h18v2z"></path></g>
  call: <g><path d="M6.62 10.79c1.44 2.83 3.76"></path></g>
  "content-copy": <g><path d="M16 1h-12c-1.1 0"></path></g>
  schedule: <g><path fillOpacity=".9" d="M11.9"></path></g>
})

Now with your newly baked Icon component, you can easily add icons to your site:

<Icon name="schedule" size=72/>
<Icon name="account-child" size=72/>
<Icon name="accessibility" size=72 />
<Icon name="call" size=72 />
<Icon name="content-copy" size=72 />
<Icon name="schedule" size=72 />

Demo

Finding icons.

The SVG for any icons you add to the factory must be designed to fit in a 24px square (this could also be made an option).

@dmfrancisco's post has all of Google's Material Design icons already formatted for this module.

The easiest way I've found to get SVG for icons from other sets is icomoon.io. It handles the conversion of SVGs to the right format for you. Note, you'll need to change the size (in the upper left hand corner) to 24px before downloading the SVGs. You'll also want to edit out the fill="#444444" that's in each SVG. Then copy the <path></path> code and surround that in <g></g> and it should then be ready to add to the factory.

Future work

I'd love to take all open source icon sets and turn them into an NPM module with the SVG for each icon as its own module. Then to use a new icon, you'd simply require it drafts = require('material-icons/drafts') and add it too the IconFactory. Couldn't be easier.

Someone did this! https://github.com/gorangajic/react-icons